Peter Kooy
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Peter Kooy is a Dutch
bass singer specialized in baroque music
.
at the Sweelinck Conservatorium
in Amsterdam
which led in 1980 to the award of the diploma for solo performance.
His international career started in 1981 under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe
, with La Chapelle Royale
and the Collegium Vocale Gent, with whom he interpreted mainly Johann Sebastian Bach
but also Henri Dumont
, Marc-Antoine Charpentier
, Jean-Baptiste Lully
, Heinrich Schütz
and Jean Gilles
.
The second half of his career was dedicated to the recording of Bach's complete cantata
s with the Bach Collegium Japan
, directed by Masaaki Suzuki
.
In 2002 he founded together with Monika Frimmer
, Christa Bonhoff
and Dantes Diwiak
a quartet Tanto Canto to sing rarely performed music a cappella
, with piano or with ensemble. The quartet recorded in 2005 excerpts from the collections Augsburger Tafel-Confect (short for: Ohren-vergnügendes und Gemüth-ergötzendes Tafel-Confect, in English: Augsburg Table Confectionery, Pleasuring the Ears and Delightful to the Soul) of the composers Valentin Rathgeber
and Johann Caspar Seyfert
.
Peter Kooy has been teaching singing at the Sweelinck Conservatorium since 1995.
Besides, one must also mention the exceptional interpretation of Jean Gilles
' Requiem with La Chapelle Royale
(Agnès Mellon
, Howard Crook
, Hervé Lamy, Peter Kooy).
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
bass singer specialized in baroque music
Baroque music
Baroque music describes a style of Western Classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1760. This era follows the Renaissance and was followed in turn by the Classical era...
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Biography
Peter Kooy started his musical career at 6 years as a choir boy. However he started his musical studies as a violin student. He came back to singing, with tuition from Max van EgmondMax van Egmond
Max van Egmond is a Dutch bass and baritone singer. He has focused on oratorio and Lied and is known for singing works of Johann Sebastian Bach.- Professional career :...
at the Sweelinck Conservatorium
Conservatorium van Amsterdam
The Conservatorium van Amsterdam is a Dutch academy of music located in Amsterdam. This school is the music division of the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, the city's vocational university of arts...
in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
which led in 1980 to the award of the diploma for solo performance.
His international career started in 1981 under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe
Philippe Herreweghe
Philippe Herreweghe is a Flemish conductor.In his school years at the University of Ghent, Herreweghe combined studies in medical science and psychiatry with a musical education at the Ghent Conservatory, where Marcel Gazelle, Yehudi Menuhin's accompanist, was his piano teacher...
, with La Chapelle Royale
La Chapelle Royale
- History :La Chapelle Royale was founded in 1977 in Paris by the Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe. It takes its name from the Chapelle royale of the French kings....
and the Collegium Vocale Gent, with whom he interpreted mainly Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
but also Henri Dumont
Henri Dumont
Henri Dumont was a Franco-Belgian composer.- Life :Dumont was born to Henry de Thier and Elisabeth Orban in Looz . The family moved in 1613 to Maastricht, where Henri and his brother Lambert were choirboys at the church of Notre-Dame...
, Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, , was a French composer of the Baroque era.Exceptionally prolific and versatile, he produced compositions of the highest quality in several genres...
, Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste de Lully was an Italian-born French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French Baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in...
, Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi...
and Jean Gilles
Jean Gilles
Jean Gilles may refer to:*Jean Gilles *Jean Gilles...
.
The second half of his career was dedicated to the recording of Bach's complete cantata
Bach cantata
Bach cantata became a term for a cantata of the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach who was a prolific writer of the genre. Although many of his works are lost, around 200 cantatas survived....
s with the Bach Collegium Japan
Bach Collegium Japan
Bach Collegium Japan is composed of an orchestra and a chorus specialising in Baroque music, playing with period instruments. It was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki with the purpose of introducing Japanese audiences to European Baroque music. Suzuki still remains its music director...
, directed by Masaaki Suzuki
Masaaki Suzuki
is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and musical director of the Bach Collegium Japan.He was born in Kobe to parents who were both Christians and amateur musicians...
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In 2002 he founded together with Monika Frimmer
Monika Frimmer
- Professional career :Monika Frimmer studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in Hannover. She studied further in master-classes and worked with Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Jörg Demus...
, Christa Bonhoff
Christa Bonhoff
- Professional career :Christa Bonhoff was born in Westphalia. Sie studied singing at the Hochschule für Musik Hamburg with Annie Schoonus. Already as a student she joined the choir NDR Chor and worked as a guest for the Hamburgische Staatsoper...
and Dantes Diwiak
Dantes Diwiak
Dantes Diwiak is a tenor, who grew up and has worked mostly in Germany.- Professional career :Dantes Diwiak studied singing with Klaus Kirchner and opera at the Musikhochschule Hannover with Theo Altmeyer. He took master classes with Hermann Reutter, Birgit Nilsson, Helmuth Rilling and Scot Weir...
a quartet Tanto Canto to sing rarely performed music a cappella
A cappella
A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
, with piano or with ensemble. The quartet recorded in 2005 excerpts from the collections Augsburger Tafel-Confect (short for: Ohren-vergnügendes und Gemüth-ergötzendes Tafel-Confect, in English: Augsburg Table Confectionery, Pleasuring the Ears and Delightful to the Soul) of the composers Valentin Rathgeber
Valentin Rathgeber
Johann Valentin Rathgeber was a German composer, organist and choirmaster of the Baroque Era.His father, an organist, gave him his first music lessons...
and Johann Caspar Seyfert
Johann Caspar Seyfert
Johann Caspar Seyfert was a German composer, violinist and lute player.He was a music director in Augsburg. In 1746 he added a fourth volume to the Augsburger Tafel-Confect, which Valentin Rathgeber had published in 1733, 1737 and 1739...
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Peter Kooy has been teaching singing at the Sweelinck Conservatorium since 1995.
Remarkable interpretations
Peter Kooy is particularly brilliant in bass arias of Johann Sebastian Bach :- Aria Mein teurer Heiland (St John Passion BWV 245)
- Aria Großer Herr, o starker König (Christmas OratorioChristmas OratorioThe Christmas Oratorio BWV 248, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season. It was written for the Christmas season of 1734 incorporating music from earlier compositions, including three secular cantatas written during 1733 and 1734 and a...
BWV 248) - Aria Wohlzutun und mitzuteilen (Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39)
- Aria Herr, so du willt (Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir, BWV 73)
- Aria Quia fecit mihi magna (MagnificatMagnificat (Bach)The Magnificat in D major, BWV 243, is a major vocal work of Johann Sebastian Bach. It was composed for orchestra, a five-part choir and four or five soloists. The text is the canticle of Mary, mother of Jesus, as told by Luke the Evangelist .Bach composed an initial version in E flat major in 1723...
BWV 243)
Besides, one must also mention the exceptional interpretation of Jean Gilles
Jean Gilles
Jean Gilles may refer to:*Jean Gilles *Jean Gilles...
' Requiem with La Chapelle Royale
La Chapelle Royale
- History :La Chapelle Royale was founded in 1977 in Paris by the Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe. It takes its name from the Chapelle royale of the French kings....
(Agnès Mellon
Agnès Mellon
Agnès Mellon is a French soprano specialized in the baroque repertoire, born in 1958.- Biography :Agnès Mellon started her career at the beginning of the 1980s with the baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants directed by William Christie, with whom, between 1981 and 1993, she interpreted Marc-Antoine...
, Howard Crook
Howard Crook
Howard Crook is an American lyric tenor who has lived and worked in the Netherlands and France since the early 1980s.He was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, and educated at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and then University of Illinois, where he received a master's degree in music,...
, Hervé Lamy, Peter Kooy).
With Philippe Herreweghe
- 1981 : Motets pour la Chapelle du roy, Henri Dumont (Chapelle Royale)
- 1985 : Motet Pour l'Offertoire de la Messe Rouge et Miserere H.219, Marc-Antoine Charpentier (Chapelle Royale)
- 1985 : Grands Motets, Jean-Baptiste Lully (Chapelle Royale)
- 1985 : St Matthew Passion BWV 244, Johann Sebastian Bach (Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale)
- 1987 : Musikalische Exequien, Heinrich Schütz (Chapelle Royale)
- 1988 : Johannes Passion BWV 245, Johann Sebastian Bach (Collegium Vocale, Orchestre de la Chapelle Royale)
- 1989 : Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248, Johann Sebastian Bach (Collegium Vocale)
- 1989 : Les Lamentations de Jérémie, Roland de Lassus (Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale)
- 1990 : Cantata Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42, Johann Sebastian Bach (Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale)
- 1990 : Magnificat BWV 243, Johann Sebastian Bach (Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale)
- 1990 : MissaMissa (Bach)A Missa of Johann Sebastian Bach is in general a composition of the Latin Mass by the German Baroque composer.More specifically, Missa refers to one of his four short masses in F major, A major, G minor and G major, BWV 233 to 236...
e BWV 234 & 235, Johann Sebastian Bach (Collegium Vocale) - 1991 : Cantatas for bass BWV 56, 82 & 128, Johann Sebastian Bach (Chapelle Royale)
- 1990 : Requiem, Jean Gilles (Chapelle Royale)
- 1991 : MissaMissa (Bach)A Missa of Johann Sebastian Bach is in general a composition of the Latin Mass by the German Baroque composer.More specifically, Missa refers to one of his four short masses in F major, A major, G minor and G major, BWV 233 to 236...
, Johann Sebastian Bach (Collegium Vocale) - 1992 : Cantatas BWV 131, 73 et 105, Johann Sebastian Bach (Collegium Vocale)
- 1992 : Missa Viri Galilei, Palestrina (Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale)
- 1993 : Cantatas BWV 39, 93 et 107, Johann Sebastian Bach (Collegium Vocale)
- 1996 : Geistliche Chormusik, Heinrich Schütz (Collegium Vocale)
Solo recitals
- Mein Herz ist bereit German Solo cantatas for bass, violin and b. c. from the 17th century. - BruhnsNicolaus BruhnsNicolaus Bruhns was a German organist, violinist, and composer. He was one of the most prominent organists and composers of his generation.-Life:...
Mein Herz ist bereit, BuxtehudeDieterich BuxtehudeDieterich Buxtehude was a German-Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and in church services...
, TunderFranz TunderFranz Tunder was a German composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was an important link between the early German Baroque style which was based on Venetian models, and the later Baroque style which culminated in the music of J.S...
, PachelbelJohann PachelbelJohann Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher, who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most...
, RosenmüllerJohann RosenmüllerJohann Rosenmüller , was a German Baroque composer, who played a part in transmitting Italian musical styles to the north....
, J. P. Krieger, Biber Nisi Dominus CordArte Ensemble, Pan Classics PC10211 2005 - De profundis clamavi – Weckmann, BruhnsNicolaus BruhnsNicolaus Bruhns was a German organist, violinist, and composer. He was one of the most prominent organists and composers of his generation.-Life:...
, Geist, Buns, J. C. Bach. Armonia Sonora, Ramée 2007 - Harmonia Sacrae – Tunder An Wasserflüssen Babylon, MederJohann Valentin MederJohann Valentin Meder was a German composer, organist, and singer. Meder was born in Wasungen, Thuringia to a musical family with his father and four brothers all being...
Gott hilf mir; Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht mit deinem Zorn, Christoph Weckmann Lamentatio Wie liegt die Stadt so wüste, Christoph BernhardChristoph BernhardChristoph Bernhard was born in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died in Dresden. He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig and in Warsaw By the age of 20 he was singing at the electoral court in Dresden under Heinrich Schütz...
Sie haben meinen Herrn hinweggenommen, BunsBenedictus BunsBenedictus Buns, Benedictus à sancto Josepho, born Buns, also named Buns Gelriensis, was a priest and composer.-Biography:...
Obstupescite Peter Kooij, Hana Blažíkova, L'Armonia Sonora, dir. Mieneke van der Velden, Ramée. 2009